I always have an art journal on my desk, while I am crafting or painting. It is a good exercise either to quickly decide how to use your extra paint on your brushes, wait for the layers to dry out, to leave the painting aside to start over with new ideas, or just to have your mind relaxed and refreshed, though still in a mode of discovering art. Apart from the extra points of creativity, you will have created your own art journals, that describe your art journey, and remind you of your thoughts, feelings, art stories, keepsakes, that can be altered books or notebooks or even handmade books, at which you will have bound paintings at whatever painting surface you will have used. A knowledge treasure of your abilities or difficulties, of creative imagination, and stories that you want to retell to yourself in the future. You can always change your previous artworks after you will have learned something new, and recreate the pages from scratch or just keep adding until you have gained a result that makes you happy.
Sometimes it is more relaxing when it has to do with the aftermaths of the art procedure, to find yourself evaluating the interaction through the pages created in your art journal rather than to contemplate over your completed painting.
I am always happy when there are new things to learn!
And happy to be able to share the digitalised version of Green Dot Creations!
